Iraq: Baghdad blasted by bombs

Bombs have hit Iraq's capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba, killing at least 75 people, police and hospital sources said, as prime minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that militants were trying to set up an "evil statelet".
In the most bloody incident yesterday, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and wounded 16 in Shatub, a village south of Baquba.
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Image copyright Reuters At least 13 people have been killed in multiple bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
Dozens of others were injured in the blasts, which struck mainly Shia neighbourhoods in the capital.
At least two of the attacks were...

The number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has risen to 165, interior ministry officials have said.
The government has declared three days of mourning after the huge blast, which also injured 225...

Blasts have hit a market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and many people are reported to have been killed and injured.
At least 18 people were killed and dozens injured, AFP news agency reports, quoting police.
It is not yet clear what caused the...

The scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, which killed four people and injured 18. Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP Five people have been killed by two car bombs in Iraq.
One of the bombs detonated in a Baghdad Shia neighbourhood and the other...

Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sparked the worst political crisis in a year on December 19 when he sought the removal of two senior Sunni politicians, a day after the last U.S. troops left Iraq. On December 22 bombs in predominately Shi'ite...